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雅各書-James 第 2 章

2:1	我的弟兄們，你們既相信我們榮耀的主耶穌基督，便不可按著外貌待人。 My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with respect of persons.
2:2	若有一個人戴著金戒指，穿著華麗衣服，進你們的會堂去，又有一個窮人，穿著肮髒衣服也進去； For if there comes into your synagogue a man with gold rings in splendid clothing, and there also comes in a poor man in filthy clothing,
2:3	你們就重看那穿華麗衣服的人，說，請你坐在這好位上；又對那窮人說，你站在那裏，或坐在我腳凳下邊。 And you look upon the one wearing the splendid clothing and say, You sit here in a good place, and to the poor man you say, You stand there, or sit under my footstool;
2:4	這豈不是你們中間有了歧視，用惡意判斷人麼？ Have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil reasonings?
2:5	我親愛的弟兄們，請聽，神豈不是揀選了世上貧窮的人，叫他們在信上富足，並承受祂所應許給那些愛祂之人的國麼？ Listen, my beloved brothers: Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which He promised to those who love Him?
2:6	你們反倒羞辱貧窮的人。那富足的人豈不是欺壓你們，拉你們到法庭去麼？ But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and is it not they who drag you to the courts?
2:7	他們不是褻瀆那在你們身上被稱呼的尊名麼？ Is it not they who blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
2:8	你們若照著經上“要愛鄰舍如同自己”的話，成全這君尊的律法，你們就作得好了； If indeed you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,'' you do well;
2:9	但你們若按外貌待人，便是犯罪，給律法定為犯法的。 But if you respect persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
2:10	因為凡遵守全律法，卻在一條上失腳的，他就是犯了眾條。 For whoever keeps the whole law yet stumbles in one point has become guilty of all.
2:11	原來那說不可奸淫的，也說不可殺人。你若是不奸淫，卻殺人，還是成了犯律法的。 For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. Now if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
2:12	你們既然要按自由的律法受審判，就該照這律法說話行事。 So speak and so do as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
2:13	因為那不憐憫人的，也要受無憐憫的審判；憐憫原是向審判誇勝。 For the judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
2:14	我的弟兄們，若有人說自己有信心，卻沒有行為，有什麼益處？難道這信心能救他麼？ What is the profit, my brothers, if anyone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
2:15	若有弟兄或姊妹經常是赤身露體的，又缺了日用的食物， If a brother or sister is without clothing and lacks daily food,
2:16	而你們中間有人對他們說，平平安安的去吧，願你們穿得暖，吃得飽；卻不給他們身體所需用的，有什麼益處？ And any one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, yet you do not give them the necessities of the body, what is the profit?
2:17	信心也是這樣，若沒有行為，就是死的。 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.
2:18	有人會說，你有信心，我有行為；你將你沒有行為的信心指給我看，我便由我的行為，將我的信心指給你看。 But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
2:19	你信神隻有一位；你信的不錯；鬼也信，卻是戰驚。 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe and shudder.
2:20	虛浮的人哪，你願意知道沒有行為的信心是無用的麼？ But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith without its works is useless?
2:21	我們的祖宗亞伯拉罕，把他兒子以撒獻在壇上，豈不是本於行為得稱義麼？ Was not Abraham our father justified by works in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
2:22	你看，信心是與他的行為同工，而且信心本於行為才得完全； You see that faith worked together with his works, and by these works faith was perfected.
2:23	這就應驗經上所說的：“亞伯拉罕信神，這就算為他的義。”他又得稱為神的朋友。 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness''; and he was called the friend of God.
2:24	可見人得稱義是本於行為，不是單本於信。 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith only.
2:25	妓女喇合接待使者，又放他們從別的路上出去，不也是一樣本於行為得稱義麼？ And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works in that she received the messengers and sent them out by a different way?
2:26	身體沒有靈是死的，照樣，信心沒有行為也是死的。 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

雅各書-James 第 2 章